Jean AKA Jeannie AKA Jeanie is a film, book, and magazine reviewer for a national magazine. Most of Jean’s work is done through email, which means he doesn't have to go into the office.
On a trip to find a gift for his girlfriend, Jean found an empty Genie Bottle. Upon picking up this bottle, Jean became the bottle’s new genie-powered occupant. Not only was Jean turned into a genie, but the bottle turned him into what he believed a genie of the bottle should look like. Which, due to his fascination with a classic 60s TV show, turned him into a busty blonde woman.
A junior engineer working for a small engineering firm in Cocoa Beach. The firm focuses mostly on NASA projects.
Neil is Jean’s best friend. When Jean was turned into a genie, Neil became Jeanie’s master.
You know, I would agree with that last… but every time in the past that I have started feeling the least little bit sorry for Jeannie, she’s immediately gone and done something that made her totally unsympathetic again.
After all, you never know; she may well have been contemplating Nati-fying Neil and leaving him behind as blue-Djinn bait.
I may be looking into the worst part of it but it seems Like Jean(ie) might be going sociopathic. They’ve shown a complete negligence of ANY consequences of their magic (though I know it’s new but there’s still the basics to think about). This (the scene above), I believe, is Jean(ie)’s subconscious acting through the stress of buried anxiety due to the change and I don’t think they’re conscious right now. I’m sorry to say, but I’ve hated Jean(ie)’s attitude through all this and I worry about their mental well-being as they haven’t seemed to take any coping mechanism or given any thought for their circumstances and what it would mean for them and everyone around them. Basically they’re like a troubled teen and lashing out at anything they don’t like.
Jean probably has a Narcissistic personality disorder due to her being force into being a genie and a woman.
She may score on the low side of psychopath check list. As she does harm to those that have caused her inconvenience and shes no problem in harming people that get in her way. Like the Duke boys and the guy hitting on her at the sports bar. Jeanies powers seem to have a will of their own base on her subconscious.
By harm i mean turned into a woman and dropped nearly naked on someones door step late at night with no safe way home.
Sent to a beach at a very dangerous time when there are thousand of safer places to send them.
This is just my take on Jeanie’s behavior.
This comic looks like a return to the sleep deprived Jeanie acting on her subconscious based on a threat to her claim on Neil again.
Yeah, you’re probably right about what’s happening here, the reason I brought up gender dysphoria is mainly do to a possible resurgence from ‘her’ conversation with agent Anderson (possible hope/loss?). I definitely agree that ‘she’ had harmed others (maybe not purposefully) with gender swaps and horrible teleportations. The beach scene itself almost made me swear off this comic and I wouldn’t have been surprised in the least if ‘she’ had brought them back as dead bodies. As horrible as that would be it may have finally given ‘her’ a true sense that this IS reality.
Genies ‘can’ change their sex. It just takes practice. Though this is her ‘core’ form she’s certainly not stuck and she has magic powers. It might take a few hundred years depending on her ability…
Those she changed on the other hand -are- stuck. They will live and die in the circumstances Jeanie opens the doors for… (with a slight kick)
Guardingdark, you mention core form, which means that this is permanent, that Jeanie will always be a female blond Genie at her core. Any attempt to be a guy for long duration, is impossible. Like when she goes to sleep, she will drift back into her core form again or do a reset to her core form, which is being a female blond Genie. So any attempt to change herself into a guy for more that a few hour or even a few days would be very tiring to Jeanie physical body to maintain it and eventually, she would have to go back to being a girl again willingly or unwillingly.
What I am saying is. Beside not knowing how to transform herself into a guy, the Genie has to exert a lot of power to maintain that male image that she want to have. Any power losses or disruptions of any kind, Jeanie will revert to her core form instantly.
I agree Larry. Still, if she did learn it’s a viable plan. She could choose to live 250 odd years presenting herself as a male genie or 1000 years as a female… not an easy choice to make but not one that would cross her mind. Humans are all about short term reactions 😉
I do feel sorry for her. This isn’t exactly good, being thrust into something through no fault of her own… but things happen in life, she’s healthy and could experience many wonders that a mortal man could not… I would consider that independent of gender.
@Guardingdark: One small correction – Jean became a genie because of his own carelessness and thoughtlessness. Had he bothered to heed Neil’s warning, Rouyaa’s bottle would not have been stolen, Jean would not have acquired it, and Jean would now still be a male human. So Jean’s current situation is NOT “through no fault of her own”, quite the opposite; Jean is, in fact, the person most responsible for the events leading up to his being genie-fied. Kind of a ‘karma’ thing, in a way.
That said, being a genie is not the worst thing in the world; like any other situation, it has it’s pluses and minuses. Jean just doesn’t make much effort either to help herself or to see the bright side.
Now there’s a thought. Jean may be superficial most of the time, but Neil is his/her friend from way back. After all, it was established that Jean moved from Cincinnati to Cocoa Beach essentially to be near Neil. If Jean is finally convinced that the Blue Djinn is a real danger to Neil…
And for the first time, Jean looks rather maternal in that scene, like a mother checking on her sleeping child. Of course, that’s supposed to be a typical characteristic of bottle genies…or maybe something more?
We’ll maybe see next week, but this could be a return to the seriousness that I Dream of Technicolor ended on. That turned out to be a tragedy, didn’t it? If so, I see increasing chances of crossovers with The Melvin Chronicles, which was definitely getting more serious up until the most recent Bachman hiatus.
After thinking about it, it look like Jeanie is retreating to Haji Castle for the safety of both Neil and herself too. The next question, what happens after she get to Haji Castle is still up in the air and nobody knows yet.
This does give rise to a question: Does Jeannie EVER feel like pizza? Hard and crusty on the bottom, squishy and pasty on top, covered in slices of greasy pepperoni? And how often does Neil get to feel her when she’s that way? Does she LOOK like pizza, too? Or only when she’s breaking out? 😉
Now that’s a scary thought. A young, irresponsible genie with poor judgement is bad enough, but one that does magic in her sleep could be truly catastrophic.
That’s not necessarily Jean out of that bottle. Remember when Araceli made herself look and sound like Jean?
Anyway, if Jean is in her bottle in the second panel, either she’s talking to herself or having a one-sided conversation or talking to herself (or in her sleep.) Or maybe she’s whispering because she’s scared now.
You know who Jean could really benefit from getting back in touch with? Melvin and Kazom. It doesn’t seem like there’s co-ordination here between the Melvin Chronicles and Jeanie now, but that could change.
On the other hand, maybe something like that burglar stealing her bottle again like he stole it from Ms. Eden’s apartment? The Escape of the Blue Djinn might be just a distant menace for this arc.
1. Jeanie has an internet connection and is doing her regular book reviews.
2. Jeanie has an internet to Haji Castle and was talking to him or somebody at his Castle.
In the last two panel, Jeanie could be sleep poofing, as mentioned above. Now that could be a problem, especially, since Jeanie still thinking about agent Anderson. Jeanie could be dreaming of doing her and end up doing Neil that been turned into Natalie. That would be a riot.
From what I’ve observed, Jean in panel 2 was probably writing a goodbye letter to Neil after what Araceli said to her about putting him in danger due to the Blue Djinn being loose which is why in panel three, she’s looking over him and doesn’t want to wake him up because if she did, Neil would have tons of questions which she probably wouldn’t be able to explain the whole details. My guess in Panel 4, she poofed to the hall of genies. Despite Jean how Jean is, when things hit the fan she’ll step up and take responsibility. Possible charscter development?
Possibly Jean has another reason to go to the genie castle. Although it wasn’t exactly spelled out, it seems she knows by the end of I Dream of Technicolor what happened to Rouyah. Jean could ask if she could return her powers to Rouyah and go back to being just Jean Nessman. It’s not exactly completely altruistic, but she seemed to make a point at the end of Technicolor of not giving a real answer to Rodge’s last question about the resemblance between his/her situation and the Barbara Eden series.
Say, what exactly does Neil have in that box? It doesn’t look like any pizza box I’ve ever seen, and if you’ve ever seen my belly in profile, you’ll know that I’ve been intimate with lots and lots of pizza boxes.
Looks like a typical box of “files”, like you see in offices that haven’t gone paperless yet. Probably tech sketches and documents and such, from his work.
Maybe this means Jeanie is finally getting some MUCH needed character development. Don’t get me wrong his/her no nonsense attitude is part of what makes him/her what he/she is, and I don’t want Jeannie to lose the impulsiveness completely. But as the previous comic shows he/she CLEARLY needs to learn to reign it in. Because he/she did not think through the potential consequences she didn’t realize that something as vague as poofing those guys to another beach could include D-day. OK grantred if I was in Jeannie’s situation I probably would have assumed it just meant the next beach over myself, so I WILL grant him/her that one. HOWEVER, Jeanie, has ALSO shown a lack of consideration for the consequences even when it would be obvious to ANYONE ELSE. Since said situations MAINLY affected him/her we were able to laugh at it. As for the others it affected what the latest incedent helped to drive home is how LUCKY it was for everyone involved that things turned out alright. SOME (The Greek fisherman for example) can be in PART justified with Self-Defence. Others Like Red in The Melvin Chronicles was just kneejerk overreacting. But they all have ONE thing in common. Jeannie did NOT go back to fix things. I would argue even in the case of the Greek Fisherman where Jeannie was COMPLETELY justified in taking the actions he/she did in order to defend herself that once she had Neil as a master again and could spproach said fisherman safely he/she should have fixed him. While that guy was CLEARLY a sleazeball two wrongs don’t make a right. That being said said I DO realize that none of this was done out of malice. Jeannie’s short-sighted nature means he/she ends up forgetting these things ever happened. But as this latest incident shows that only goes so far Jeannie has been lucky in that everything has worked out ok for the people she messed with. While, again, I do feel that this latest incident wasn’t one a reasonable person could predict. It DOES help from a story-telling perspective to point out thst Jeannie’s actions DO HAVE CONSEQUENCES. And that it IS ONLY through LUCK that he/she has avoided disaster so far.
The way Jean’s magic works isn’t necessarily because he/she’s impulsive. Rouyah got in trouble for just wishing that Sid would be safe during the war. Clearly she didn’t have to think it out, she just did it, and her magic found a solution–kind of a drastic solution which probably did some harm to the war effort, but didn’t kill anyone. Jeanie didn’t even know the General Lee was a car when she zapped it away. And she didn’t recognize Agent Anderson; she wasn’t even in the same room when she turned him into a woman. Jean became Jeanie because he was thinking of the show when he rubbed the bottle; Jean may have been seen Saving Private Ryan recently and her anger at the jerky guys (which was kind of righteous anger, and Jeanie deserves some cred for that) may have twisted her conscious “some other beach” into “Omaha Beach.” If she had actually had more training from Kazom, she probably would have had more control over her magic. When Araceli summoned a “hot dog” for Neil, at least she summoned a dog dog, not a surfer (which would have been appropriate to Cocoa Beach, BTW, which really is a surfing mecca. They even have a surf camp each summer.)
A war started by a genie too… or at least made possible in this universe… an economic crisis caused by genies which could take decades to repair… genies sending people to a war for kicks…
Hmm… I’m starting to think humans would be far better off without genies.
The previous genie Rouyaa somehow ‘created’ billions of dollars for the space program from nothing… the money was spent. Essentially she printed the money. That’s quite a black hole that would take decades to repair.
Hey, I’m only thinking fiction not RL. Though yes it could be parallel 😉
The trouble with ‘moving funding’ means another party would be without money, ask questions and likely get the money agreed on by the US budget. That means either printing money for -them-, or finding where the money went and deal with it as theft. The fact they had the FBI try to investigate where the money came from means it’s not a case of one department not having it, hence I conclude the wish resulted in printing money, followed by an economic crisis when the audit came. We are talking about billions of US dollars in the 60s…
That’s going by the evidence and actions so far. I think these are reasonable conclusions, given no other party has suffered a loss of money at the same time. The wish was quite specific, to get money without losing on other projects.
WERE the money really spent? I think that they actually disappeared little later … yeah, see here https://jeaniebottle.com/?comic=jeanie-bottle-395 – it was just few millions and they disappeared, likely because the genie master reverted the wish.
Hmm looks like I stand corrected. Though it seems strange to me rouyaa was punished so severely when her wish was reversed with no actual consequence… while her half sister got to ravage Europe. consider me confused now.
To find her missing eyes maybe?
I kinda wish we knew what she’s saying in her bottle.. for that matter, I wish we could cheer her up.
You know, I would agree with that last… but every time in the past that I have started feeling the least little bit sorry for Jeannie, she’s immediately gone and done something that made her totally unsympathetic again.
After all, you never know; she may well have been contemplating Nati-fying Neil and leaving him behind as blue-Djinn bait.
I may be looking into the worst part of it but it seems Like Jean(ie) might be going sociopathic. They’ve shown a complete negligence of ANY consequences of their magic (though I know it’s new but there’s still the basics to think about). This (the scene above), I believe, is Jean(ie)’s subconscious acting through the stress of buried anxiety due to the change and I don’t think they’re conscious right now. I’m sorry to say, but I’ve hated Jean(ie)’s attitude through all this and I worry about their mental well-being as they haven’t seemed to take any coping mechanism or given any thought for their circumstances and what it would mean for them and everyone around them. Basically they’re like a troubled teen and lashing out at anything they don’t like.
Jean probably has a Narcissistic personality disorder due to her being force into being a genie and a woman.
She may score on the low side of psychopath check list. As she does harm to those that have caused her inconvenience and shes no problem in harming people that get in her way. Like the Duke boys and the guy hitting on her at the sports bar. Jeanies powers seem to have a will of their own base on her subconscious.
By harm i mean turned into a woman and dropped nearly naked on someones door step late at night with no safe way home.
Sent to a beach at a very dangerous time when there are thousand of safer places to send them.
This is just my take on Jeanie’s behavior.
This comic looks like a return to the sleep deprived Jeanie acting on her subconscious based on a threat to her claim on Neil again.
Yeah, you’re probably right about what’s happening here, the reason I brought up gender dysphoria is mainly do to a possible resurgence from ‘her’ conversation with agent Anderson (possible hope/loss?). I definitely agree that ‘she’ had harmed others (maybe not purposefully) with gender swaps and horrible teleportations. The beach scene itself almost made me swear off this comic and I wouldn’t have been surprised in the least if ‘she’ had brought them back as dead bodies. As horrible as that would be it may have finally given ‘her’ a true sense that this IS reality.
Agree with you completely but with one proviso:
Genies ‘can’ change their sex. It just takes practice. Though this is her ‘core’ form she’s certainly not stuck and she has magic powers. It might take a few hundred years depending on her ability…
Those she changed on the other hand -are- stuck. They will live and die in the circumstances Jeanie opens the doors for… (with a slight kick)
Guardingdark, you mention core form, which means that this is permanent, that Jeanie will always be a female blond Genie at her core. Any attempt to be a guy for long duration, is impossible. Like when she goes to sleep, she will drift back into her core form again or do a reset to her core form, which is being a female blond Genie. So any attempt to change herself into a guy for more that a few hour or even a few days would be very tiring to Jeanie physical body to maintain it and eventually, she would have to go back to being a girl again willingly or unwillingly.
What I am saying is. Beside not knowing how to transform herself into a guy, the Genie has to exert a lot of power to maintain that male image that she want to have. Any power losses or disruptions of any kind, Jeanie will revert to her core form instantly.
I agree Larry. Still, if she did learn it’s a viable plan. She could choose to live 250 odd years presenting herself as a male genie or 1000 years as a female… not an easy choice to make but not one that would cross her mind. Humans are all about short term reactions 😉
I do feel sorry for her. This isn’t exactly good, being thrust into something through no fault of her own… but things happen in life, she’s healthy and could experience many wonders that a mortal man could not… I would consider that independent of gender.
@Guardingdark: One small correction – Jean became a genie because of his own carelessness and thoughtlessness. Had he bothered to heed Neil’s warning, Rouyaa’s bottle would not have been stolen, Jean would not have acquired it, and Jean would now still be a male human. So Jean’s current situation is NOT “through no fault of her own”, quite the opposite; Jean is, in fact, the person most responsible for the events leading up to his being genie-fied. Kind of a ‘karma’ thing, in a way.
That said, being a genie is not the worst thing in the world; like any other situation, it has it’s pluses and minuses. Jean just doesn’t make much effort either to help herself or to see the bright side.
@Katt
I believe one Mr. Williams put it best:
PHENOMENAL COSMIC POWER!
…iiiiiiiiitty-bitty living space.
It looks to me as if Jeanie, is saying Goodbye.
Now there’s a thought. Jean may be superficial most of the time, but Neil is his/her friend from way back. After all, it was established that Jean moved from Cincinnati to Cocoa Beach essentially to be near Neil. If Jean is finally convinced that the Blue Djinn is a real danger to Neil…
And for the first time, Jean looks rather maternal in that scene, like a mother checking on her sleeping child. Of course, that’s supposed to be a typical characteristic of bottle genies…or maybe something more?
We’ll maybe see next week, but this could be a return to the seriousness that I Dream of Technicolor ended on. That turned out to be a tragedy, didn’t it? If so, I see increasing chances of crossovers with The Melvin Chronicles, which was definitely getting more serious up until the most recent Bachman hiatus.
After thinking about it, it look like Jeanie is retreating to Haji Castle for the safety of both Neil and herself too. The next question, what happens after she get to Haji Castle is still up in the air and nobody knows yet.
It almost looked like Jeannie was saying a silent goodbye or something in that fourth panel.
Maybe someone in her bottle was convincing her of the need to go to that genie palace?
Weird, creepy, dark… I really am enjoying this new sub-plot. Like $100 on Jeanie being currently possessed by that evil genie
What the hell is going on?
*Gasp!* She’s got…. YOUNGBLOODS DISEASE!
Oh no!! Someone call Linkara! Surely he can help!
OK, this is a little weird… is that Neil in panels 4 & 5? It doesn’t look quite like him…
Although I really DO like the way Neil is drawn in panel 2. Much better facial definition, CD. If you’re trying out a new technique, I approve!
I was thinking he’s lost some weight.
Me too, but it’s just one panel.
This does give rise to a question: Does Jeannie EVER feel like pizza? Hard and crusty on the bottom, squishy and pasty on top, covered in slices of greasy pepperoni? And how often does Neil get to feel her when she’s that way? Does she LOOK like pizza, too? Or only when she’s breaking out? 😉
Sleep poofing???
Now that’s a scary thought. A young, irresponsible genie with poor judgement is bad enough, but one that does magic in her sleep could be truly catastrophic.
That’s not necessarily Jean out of that bottle. Remember when Araceli made herself look and sound like Jean?
Anyway, if Jean is in her bottle in the second panel, either she’s talking to herself or having a one-sided conversation or talking to herself (or in her sleep.) Or maybe she’s whispering because she’s scared now.
You know who Jean could really benefit from getting back in touch with? Melvin and Kazom. It doesn’t seem like there’s co-ordination here between the Melvin Chronicles and Jeanie now, but that could change.
On the other hand, maybe something like that burglar stealing her bottle again like he stole it from Ms. Eden’s apartment? The Escape of the Blue Djinn might be just a distant menace for this arc.
Please tell me we’ll see another post before next week. I really want to know more.
In the second panel, I see two possibilities:
1. Jeanie has an internet connection and is doing her regular book reviews.
2. Jeanie has an internet to Haji Castle and was talking to him or somebody at his Castle.
In the last two panel, Jeanie could be sleep poofing, as mentioned above. Now that could be a problem, especially, since Jeanie still thinking about agent Anderson. Jeanie could be dreaming of doing her and end up doing Neil that been turned into Natalie. That would be a riot.
Well that comment took an unexpected turn. Not that I disapprove. 🙂
Above the strip is says “435” but the comments are (correctly) labeled “436”
Whoops, that would be my fault. It’s wrong in the comic. I’ll fix it.
Just how does one feel like a pizza? Covered with cheese and tomato sauce and various toppings?
GMTA – Great Minds Think Alike.
Round or square? Shallow or deep dish?
@Robert Nowall: Shallow, for sure – Jeannie is definitely a shallow type. 😉
So do warped ones. 🙂
@Amber Thompson: Hm. Those two things aren’t mutually exclusive. 😉
From what I’ve observed, Jean in panel 2 was probably writing a goodbye letter to Neil after what Araceli said to her about putting him in danger due to the Blue Djinn being loose which is why in panel three, she’s looking over him and doesn’t want to wake him up because if she did, Neil would have tons of questions which she probably wouldn’t be able to explain the whole details. My guess in Panel 4, she poofed to the hall of genies. Despite Jean how Jean is, when things hit the fan she’ll step up and take responsibility. Possible charscter development?
Possibly Jean has another reason to go to the genie castle. Although it wasn’t exactly spelled out, it seems she knows by the end of I Dream of Technicolor what happened to Rouyah. Jean could ask if she could return her powers to Rouyah and go back to being just Jean Nessman. It’s not exactly completely altruistic, but she seemed to make a point at the end of Technicolor of not giving a real answer to Rodge’s last question about the resemblance between his/her situation and the Barbara Eden series.
Say, what exactly does Neil have in that box? It doesn’t look like any pizza box I’ve ever seen, and if you’ve ever seen my belly in profile, you’ll know that I’ve been intimate with lots and lots of pizza boxes.
Maybe it’s a REALLY deep dish pizza.
I don’t think its meant to be a pizza. He was just carrying something when he asked her about dinner.
Looks like a typical box of “files”, like you see in offices that haven’t gone paperless yet. Probably tech sketches and documents and such, from his work.
Or possibly some equipment he’s working on. Neil clearly does hardware design & prototyping, as well as paperwork.
Or being the nerd he is… figurines of either Star Trek, comic books or anime!
Or the latest Scarlet Avenger figurine from War Mallet.
My opinion is that Jeannie is having a talk with Araceli and is learning what’s at stake for those who own a genie’s bottle putting real fear in her.
That seems entirely too civil for Jeannie.
The game a foot.
At least this week, the game is Clue. Watch out for Colonel Mustard.
which in this comic means someone is going to end up looking like Odette. 🙂
Maybe this means Jeanie is finally getting some MUCH needed character development. Don’t get me wrong his/her no nonsense attitude is part of what makes him/her what he/she is, and I don’t want Jeannie to lose the impulsiveness completely. But as the previous comic shows he/she CLEARLY needs to learn to reign it in. Because he/she did not think through the potential consequences she didn’t realize that something as vague as poofing those guys to another beach could include D-day. OK grantred if I was in Jeannie’s situation I probably would have assumed it just meant the next beach over myself, so I WILL grant him/her that one. HOWEVER, Jeanie, has ALSO shown a lack of consideration for the consequences even when it would be obvious to ANYONE ELSE. Since said situations MAINLY affected him/her we were able to laugh at it. As for the others it affected what the latest incedent helped to drive home is how LUCKY it was for everyone involved that things turned out alright. SOME (The Greek fisherman for example) can be in PART justified with Self-Defence. Others Like Red in The Melvin Chronicles was just kneejerk overreacting. But they all have ONE thing in common. Jeannie did NOT go back to fix things. I would argue even in the case of the Greek Fisherman where Jeannie was COMPLETELY justified in taking the actions he/she did in order to defend herself that once she had Neil as a master again and could spproach said fisherman safely he/she should have fixed him. While that guy was CLEARLY a sleazeball two wrongs don’t make a right. That being said said I DO realize that none of this was done out of malice. Jeannie’s short-sighted nature means he/she ends up forgetting these things ever happened. But as this latest incident shows that only goes so far Jeannie has been lucky in that everything has worked out ok for the people she messed with. While, again, I do feel that this latest incident wasn’t one a reasonable person could predict. It DOES help from a story-telling perspective to point out thst Jeannie’s actions DO HAVE CONSEQUENCES. And that it IS ONLY through LUCK that he/she has avoided disaster so far.
I think this is hinting at things to come.
The way Jean’s magic works isn’t necessarily because he/she’s impulsive. Rouyah got in trouble for just wishing that Sid would be safe during the war. Clearly she didn’t have to think it out, she just did it, and her magic found a solution–kind of a drastic solution which probably did some harm to the war effort, but didn’t kill anyone. Jeanie didn’t even know the General Lee was a car when she zapped it away. And she didn’t recognize Agent Anderson; she wasn’t even in the same room when she turned him into a woman. Jean became Jeanie because he was thinking of the show when he rubbed the bottle; Jean may have been seen Saving Private Ryan recently and her anger at the jerky guys (which was kind of righteous anger, and Jeanie deserves some cred for that) may have twisted her conscious “some other beach” into “Omaha Beach.” If she had actually had more training from Kazom, she probably would have had more control over her magic. When Araceli summoned a “hot dog” for Neil, at least she summoned a dog dog, not a surfer (which would have been appropriate to Cocoa Beach, BTW, which really is a surfing mecca. They even have a surf camp each summer.)
A war started by a genie too… or at least made possible in this universe… an economic crisis caused by genies which could take decades to repair… genies sending people to a war for kicks…
Hmm… I’m starting to think humans would be far better off without genies.
makes you miss the days when Genies punished north Korean spies by giving them a boob job.
Wait, what’s this about an economic crisis? I don’t remember that one.
The previous genie Rouyaa somehow ‘created’ billions of dollars for the space program from nothing… the money was spent. Essentially she printed the money. That’s quite a black hole that would take decades to repair.
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@Guardingdark Real World Economic Crisis counterpart please? Otherwise I am going to assume the wish moved funds around.
Hey, I’m only thinking fiction not RL. Though yes it could be parallel 😉
The trouble with ‘moving funding’ means another party would be without money, ask questions and likely get the money agreed on by the US budget. That means either printing money for -them-, or finding where the money went and deal with it as theft. The fact they had the FBI try to investigate where the money came from means it’s not a case of one department not having it, hence I conclude the wish resulted in printing money, followed by an economic crisis when the audit came. We are talking about billions of US dollars in the 60s…
That’s going by the evidence and actions so far. I think these are reasonable conclusions, given no other party has suffered a loss of money at the same time. The wish was quite specific, to get money without losing on other projects.
WERE the money really spent? I think that they actually disappeared little later … yeah, see here https://jeaniebottle.com/?comic=jeanie-bottle-395 – it was just few millions and they disappeared, likely because the genie master reverted the wish.
Hmm looks like I stand corrected. Though it seems strange to me rouyaa was punished so severely when her wish was reversed with no actual consequence… while her half sister got to ravage Europe. consider me confused now.
Happy Birthday, CD
I second that…
Happy Birthday, CD.
It’s your birthday? Well happy birthday! I hope you get all your wishes fulfilled!
CD, are you doing alright? Your schedule tends to falter right before you announce that you’re sick. Take care and I hope I’m worrying over nothing.
I’m fine, just very busy with work, move and other things going on
No comic this week?